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La Maison de La Radio
Sat 8 Jun 6:45 PM CREMORnE
Sun 16 Jun 10:00 aM StatE
France, Japan | 2012 | 103 mins | In French with English
subtitles
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Nicolas Philibert | Producer: Serge Lalou | Distributor: Hi Gloss
Entertainment
Nicolas Philibert, the award-winning director of To Be and
to Have, has turned his affectionate yet acute gaze on
France’s national broadcaster – a Continental combination
of the BBC, ABC Radio National and America’s National
Public Radio. This beautifully crafted documentary, shot in
Radio France’s bagel-shaped home on the Seine, follows
the station’s dawn-to-dusk schedule. Philibert masterfully
intercuts between the numerous and delightfully quirky
characters. We meet a playful news editor; a presenter
learning the art of a newsflash; a charmingly dedicated
producer who, with a knowing glance, gets just the
performance she wants; and an archetypal archivist,
gnomically peering out from tottering piles of CDs.
Philibert, whose work frequently covers the complexities of
institutions and their staff (e.g. Nenette, SFF 2010),
portrays a dedicated and extremely likeable bunch who,
like a ripe Brie, positively ooze with appealing Frenchness.
Screens with Captive Radio ( 6 June only, page 50)
The Moo Man
FRi 7 Jun 10:00 aM EV4
Sun 9 Jun 12:00 PM EV9
UK, Germany | 2013 | 98 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Directors: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier | Producers: Andy Heathcote,
Heike Bachelier | Distributor: Rialto Distribution
Just like a farmer in a children’s picture book, all the Moo
Man’s cows have names and they live long contented
lives. Farming in the 21st century is rarely this idyllic,
but Stephen Hook is bucking the trend. On his farm in
southern England he lovingly cares for his Friesian herd,
believing that happy cows make for better milk – which he
hand delivers in glass bottles. This approach may be
charming, but it doesn’t pay the bills and he’s forced to
reassess. His new marketing campaign kicks off when he
takes Ida, the Queen of the Herd, to Eastbourne, where
she poses by the beach lapping up the attention – in fact,
she’s more than reluctant to leave. Directors Andy
Heathcote and Heike Bachelier followed this gentle farmer
for four years, and the result is a heartwarming tale of
quiet resistance and resilience.
Screens with Irish Folk Furniture (page 50)
naRco cuLT uRa
FRi 7 Jun 6:15 PM EV8
Sun 16 Jun 8:45 PM DOQ2
USA, Mexico | 2013 | 103 mins | In English and Spanish
with English subtitles
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Shaul Schwarz | Producers: Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Todd
Hagopian| World Sales: K5 International
A Mexican kid stands at the border, looking across to the
US. “They don’t kill people over there,” he says. In Ciudad
Juárez, homicides are commonplace and the crime-scene
unit deals with thousands of cases. Across the Río Grande
in El Paso, murders can be counted on one hand, but
perversely the image of Juarez and its all-powerful drug
cartels is inspiring an American counterculture. In Shaul
Schwarz’s ingenious documentary, the life of Mexican CSI
detective Richi Soto is juxtaposed with an L.A .-based narco
corridor singer, Edgar Quintero, whose badass lyrics glorify
the narco traffickers. While Quintero belts out “Cross my
path and I’ll chop your head off,” with a bazooka on his
shoulder, Soto picks up dismembered bodies from the
street. Schwarz, a longtime photojournalist, in this, his
debut film, has given us the story from both sides of the
fence – and it’s horrifying.
The PeRveRT’s Guide
To ideoLoGy
Sun 9 Jun 6:00 PM EV8
MOn 10 Jun 6:45 PM CREMORnE
Sun 16 Jun 2:30 PM EV4
UK, Ireland | 2012 | 134 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Producers: Martin Rosenbaum, James Wilson,
Katie Holly, Sophie Fiennes | World Sales: Doc & Film International
With a title like that, it couldn’t be anyone else but ‘the
Elvis of cultural theory’. Slovenian scholar and pundit Slavoj
Žižek is front and centre in this oft-hilarious, exhilarating
lesson on film history and ideology both overt and hidden.
Director Sophie Fiennes, who collaborated with the
infamous philosopher on The Pervert’s Guide to the
Cinema (SFF 2006), situates Žižek within the movies on
which he speaks, literally placing him in look-alike film sets
from whence he delivers non-stop analysis. He’s on the
bed in Taxi Driver, all at sea in Jaws, or dressed for the
occasion in The Sound of Music. That’s just a handful of
the movies he mines for their ideological implications.
Packed with Žižek one-liners – “Ideology is an empty
container open to all possible meanings” – this is a film to
get your brain cells spinning like Maria on a mountaintop.
Pussy RioT – a Punk
PRayeR
POkazatElnyy PROtSESS – iStORiya PuSSy RiOt
Sat 8 Jun 4:30 PM EV4
Sun 9 Jun 3:45 PM EV8
Russia, UK | 2013 | 91 mins | In Russian and English with
English subtitles
auStRalian PREMiERE
Directors: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin | Producers: Mike Lerner, Maxim
Pozdorovkin | World Sales: Goldcrest Films
In February 2012, the three members of the Russian
punk-rock group Pussy Riot pulled on their brightly
coloured balaclavas and went to church. Or rather they
performed ‘Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away’ in front of a
shocked congregation at a hallowed Moscow cathedral.
Their gleefully provocative actions resulted in a
much-publicised trial, and they soon became international
symbols of a youthful resistance to Putin’s regime. Footage
of Nadia, Katia and Masha negotiating the courtroom chaos
with anarchic bravado is intercut with candid family
interviews and Pussy Riot performances. UK director Mike
Lerner is an Academy Award®-nominated producer for Hell
and Back Again and Sundance award winner for Afghan
Star. He and his Russian directing partner Maxim
Pozdorovkin have crafted a timely documentary that offers
a telling glimpse of the girls behind the ski masks.
a RiveR chanGes couRse
Sun 9 Jun 6:00 PM DOQ2
tuE 11 Jun 10:00 aM EV4
Cambodia, USA | 2013 | 83 mins | In Khmer and Jarai with
English subtitles
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Kalyanee Mam | Producers: Ratanek Leng, Kalyanee Mam |
World Sales: Cat & Docs
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary
at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Kalyanee Mam’s
directorial debut focuses on today’s Cambodia, where the
rapid pace of change is leaving many behind. The impact
of war and climate change results in meagre crops for a
farming community in the remote rainforested north of the
country. Further south, a family that relies on the river for
its livelihood is facing rapidly depleting fish stocks. The
teenage son, Sari, will undoubtedly have to leave his
coastal home. In a village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh,
a mother, deep in debt, is forced to send her oldest
daughter to work in the city’s sweatshops. Mam has
crafted a documentary of striking beauty, that on one level
tells intimate familial stories, and on the other a
devastating tale of global impact.
Screens with Pablo’s Villa (page 50)
scaTTeR My ashes aT
BeRGdoRf’s
Sat 8 Jun 12:30 PM EV9
Sat 15 Jun 12:00 PM EV8
USA | 2013 | 89 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Matthew Miele | Screenwriter: Matthew Miele | Producer:
Mallory Andrews | Distributor: Hopscotch Entertainment
Bergdorf Goodman has been described as the epitome of
luxury, a posh palace, an emporium attracting the most
discerning clientele in the world. Founded in 1866, the
store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue is populated with
top-notch staff, including a team dedicated to creating
sumptuous window displays. Among them is New York’s
pre-eminent personal shopper, the sharp-eyed,
sharp-tongued Betty Halbreich, a stylist on Sex and the
City. Fashion history oozes from its hallowed walls, but
young designers also have a place. We follow chief
trendspotter Linda Fargo (described as a kinder, gentler
Anna Wintour) as she checks out the new kids on the
block. Giorgio Armani, Christian Louboutin, Michael Kors,
Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Joan Rivers and
the Olsen sisters are just some of the designers and
celebrities who contribute stories to this department-store
‘biopic’. Don’t miss the Barbra Streisand clip during the
closing credits!
The seaRch foR
eMak Bakia
EMak Bakia Baita
MOn 10 Jun 3:15 PM DOQ2
Sat 15 Jun 10:30 aM EV9
Spain | 2012 | 83 mins | In Basque, French, Italian and
Spanish with English subtitles
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director, Screenwriter, Producer: Oskar Alegría
In 1926, avant-garde artist Man Ray, a leading figure in
the Dada and Surrealist movements, shot a cine-poem on
Spain’s Basque coast. The film was called Emak Bakia, a
title rumoured to be obtained from a gravestone in a
Biarritz cemetery – or perhaps it was the name of the
house in which the artist stayed. Filmmaker Oskar Alegria,
inspired by the whimsically inventive artist, determines to
uncover the truth behind the layers of myth. His journey is
not, however, a straightforward one. At one point he
decides to follow the path of a hare. He finds references to
the film in singular nooks and crannies across Europe,
from clowns to publishers, from a vintage clothes shop to
old postcards. An absurdist voyage or an assemblage of
coincidence, Alegria’s film brilliantly channels this
legendary boundary-breaking artist.
Screens with Notes on Blindness: Rainfall (page 50)
38 INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2013
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